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<<African Americans have resisted historic and ongoing oppression, in all forms, especially the racial terrorism of lynching, racial pogroms, and police killings since our arrival upon these shores. These efforts have been to advocate for a dignified self-determined life in a just democratic society in the United States and beyond the United States political jurisdiction. The 1950s and 1970s in the United States was defined by actions such as sit-ins, boycotts, walk outs, strikes by Black people and white allies in the fight for justice against discrimination in all sectors of society from employment to education to housing. Black people have had to consistently push the United States to live up to its ideals of freedom, liberty, and justice for all.>>
From: The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) https://asalh.org/black-history-themes/
<<In 1526, the very first Africans arrived in North America as slaves of the San Miguel de Guadalupe colony. They promptly revolted and took refuge with the local indigenous people, becoming the first permanent non-native inhabitants of what would become the United States. Since that time, African American resistance has taken a variety of forms as their challenges shifted from slavery to lynching, segregation, inequality, discrimination, profiling, mass-incarceration, police violence, and others.>>
From: “500 Years of Black Resistance,” The Decolonial Atlas. February 18, 2018.
https://decolonialatlas.wordpress.com/2018/02/18/500-years-of-black-resistance/
Mr. Frederick Douglass was an abolitionist, author, diplomat, editor, orator, and social justice activist. His autobiographical and lecture series help advanced the United States anti-slavery movement. Mr. Douglass was a vociferous advocate of universal suffrage for all. He participated in the 1848 Women’s Rights Conference and published the Conference Report.
Ms. Ida B. Wells-Barnett was an editor, journalist, orator, suffragette, and social justice activist. She is best known for her crusade to expose violence against African Americans. Ms. Wells-Barnett is remembered for exposing the intersectionality of racial and gender discrimination in voting rights.
Dr. William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an author, editor, educator, scholar, and social justice activist. Dr. Du Bois was a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, (NAACP), the largest and oldest civil rights organization in the United States. He also served as editor of NAACP’s The Crisis magazine and published several scholarly works on race and African American culture, history, and politics.
Dr. Angela Davis is an author, educator, feminist, scholar, philosopher, and social justice activist. She is the Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her commitment to ending the prison-industrial complex began with her support of the Fee Soledad Prisoners movement, which led to her wrongful arrest and imprisonment as a political prisoner in the 1970s.
Ms. Stacey Abrams is an attorney, author, public servant, and social justice activist. She founded the Fair Fight and the New Georgia Project to secure voting rights for Georgia’s disenfranchised communities. Ms. Abrams was the first woman to lead the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead the Georgia House of Representatives.
<<Each February, National Black History Month serves as both a celebration and a powerful reminder that Black history is American history, Black culture is American culture, and Black stories are essential to the ongoing story of America — our faults, our struggles, our progress, and our aspirations. Shining a light on Black history today is as important to understanding ourselves and growing stronger as a Nation as it has ever been. That is why it is essential that we take time to celebrate the immeasurable contributions of Black Americans, honor the legacies and achievements of generations past, reckon with centuries of injustice, and confront those injustices that still fester today.>>
From: A Proclamation on National Black History Month, 2022 by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. January 31, 2022. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/01/31/a-proclamation-on-national-black-history-month-2022/
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